Man Faces Charges In Attack On Girl, 10

Digest

September 3, 1985|By Kevin Allen, Staff Writer

FORT LAUDERDALE — A man serving two years` probation after pleading no contest to charges he assaulted a 14-year-old girl was arrested again Monday, this time for allegedly attacking a 10-year-old girl, police said.

Paul Winston Harkisson, 37, was charged with lewd and lascivious assault in the presence of a child and false imprisonment, police spokesman Ott Cefkin said.

Cefkin said the girl told police Harkisson fondled her and held her captive at his home in the 200 block of Southwest 24th Avenue for about two hours Sunday.

The girl said Harkisson asked her if she would accompany him to the supermarket near her home in Hollywood about 11:30 a.m. Sunday, but drove her to his home in Fort Lauderdale after she accepted the ride, Cefkin said.

The girl said she was assaulted while driving to and from Harkisson`s house, Cefkin said.

Harkisson told authorities he took the girl to his home against her will, but denied any sexual contact with her, Cefkin said.

Harkisson pleaded no contest to charges of indecent assualt on a 14-year-old girl and unlawful carnal intercourse last September and was sentenced to two years` probation and fined $15,000, police said.